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A Day In A Life of Female Entrepreneur | Hardika Shah
OutlookIndia
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8/6/2023
On the Internation Women's Day, this video delves into the day of a female entrepreneur. In this video Hardika Shah, CEO, Kinara Capital will take you through her busy day.
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I will end this review of my day by telling you one of my favorite quotes from Maya Angelou
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My mission in life is not just to survive
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It's to thrive and it's to do it with some style some passion some compassion and some humor
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Happy International Women's Day. Thank you for having me and good luck
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Hi.
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My name is Hardika Shah, and I'm the founder and CEO
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of Kinara Capital.
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You asked me how I start my day.
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I'm actually an early riser.
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I've always been.
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I usually get out of bed and, like everybody else,
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check my phone first.
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But very quickly, I remind myself
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that there are three dogs outside who need me to get out
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and give them some food.
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I take care of these street dogs around the neighborhood.
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There's Darpok, and Lola, and Papita,
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and sometimes a couple of other stragglers
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come by who I get to name as well.
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After that, my lovely husband Bala
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makes me the one and only one thing
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he knows how to cook, which is a beautiful cup of coffee.
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So I get that caffeine boost, and I'm ready to go.
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Sometimes we go for a walk.
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Probably need to do a little bit more of that.
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But usually, that just gets me going.
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Coffee is the best, and I get ready to go to work.
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Work's usually a set of meetings, follow-ups.
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We have an open calendar, open culture.
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I have no secretary, no EA.
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So I manage my own travel.
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I manage my own timetable, and I manage all the meetings
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myself, which means I'm always on my toes moving
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around the office, which is now already four
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floors in the corporate office here in Bangalore.
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But at the end of the day, I try to get home by 7, 730,
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and I try to switch off my technical finance
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part of my brain and do something that's a little bit
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more fun and creative.
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I love art.
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I collect art.
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I used to paint.
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I'm not very good, which is why I collect more than I actually
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paint.
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One of the other parts of my job is to travel.
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I get to meet customers.
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I get to go to my branches, meet employees.
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Last year, I spent a lot of time on the road, 13 countries
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and probably about 40 to 50 cities in India.
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I love that part of my job.
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It is liberating, trying new places, foods,
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and just talking to people to see
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how life goes on for them.
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A lot of meetings around technology and data science,
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because that is a core part of how
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we solve the different parts of our business
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to provide a level of service that
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is required by the small business entrepreneur.
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So we spend a huge amount of time
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working and reworking our technology
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to make it more efficient, more powerful, and more relevant.
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I usually come to office with my dappa,
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and I hope that I get time to eat it with some folks,
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because everything is on the go.
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And when I do, I just walk into the cafeteria
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and sit down with whoever is there
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in that time of the day and share a meal.
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And most of the times, they appreciate what I bring
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in my dappa as much as I do theirs.
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You ask me what advice I can give
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to young women who are in business
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and want to be leaders tomorrow.
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My one piece of advice is the one
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that has worked for me always, which is to be persistent.
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Everyone is going to try to figure out where you fit,
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what box to put you in--
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too fat, too thin, too tall, too skinny, too whatever.
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At the end of the day, you only have yourself
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to answer.
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You need to find your voice.
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You need to find that authentic story that is yours.
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And that is what has helped me.
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And being persistent with yourself and everything
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you want to do gets you where you need to go.
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